The former military master is judged for the kidnapping and murder of Maëlys de Araujo, as well as for sexual assaults against two small cousins, then 4 and 6 years old.
After the confessions of Nordalh Lelandais, the time is with requisitions. The perpetuity criminal imprisonment, with a security sentence of twenty-two, was required, Thursday, February 17, against Nordahl Lelandais. The former military master, whose highly publicized trial will have lasted three weeks, is judged for the removal and murder of Maëlys de Araujo, as well as for sexual aggression against two small cousins, then 4 and 6 years, during the summer of 2017.
“I will ask you to declare Nordahl Lelandais Grand Criminal, Grand Predator,” said the Advocate General, Jacques Dallest, qualifying the accused, judged since January 31 in front of the Assizes de l’Isère, “social danger absolute “. “Maëlys has been the child at his mercy. It could have been another child. Obviously that the mobile is sexual,” he added, qualifying as a man “without emotion” the former soldier, already convicted for murder in 2021.
Sitting in his box in clear shirt, the accused sketched a slight no head at the moment when Mr. Dalst was demanding life. The defense argument is awaited Thursday afternoon and the verdict on Friday, after three weeks of debate.
He who will have 39s Friday, the day of the verdict, was already sentenced in May 2021 to twenty years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of Arthur Noyer, a young alpine hunter he had taken in stop one night d ‘April 2017, in Chambéry.
“A man-wolf”
Wednesday, Maës Mother’s lawyer, M e Fabien Rajon, said to wait for the indictment of the Advocate General, Jacques Dallest, “Lucidity and Firmness”. “Lucidity (…) as to the fact that this individual is particularly dangerous, and firmness, not in a spirit of revenge, but because it goes from the interests of society,” he explained in front of the press on Thursday evening.
A little earlier facing the Court, M e Rajon recalled in a long plea that if Nordahl Lelandais was not pursued for the rape of Maëlys as part of this trial, fault “Indisputable proof”, the “sexual mobile [was] (…) Evidence”.
The former military recognized during the trial having killed “voluntarily” Maësys by evoking panic access and a “hallucination”, explaining to have seen the face of Arthur walnut on that of the girl. And he repeated that he never had sexual intention.
In his argument, the lawyer also evoked the “disturbing” factors of the accused’s personality, his “dangerous” and his “lack of recoil” on his actions. He then read before the Court a letter from the parents of Arthur Noyer dated February 14th on the statements of Mr. Lelandais. “Stop using Arthur. You have no empathy, you have not changed, you will stay a malfacious, a manipulator, a coward,” they write.
Before him, the other five civilian lawyers have also traced an extremely dark portrait of the accused. For the lawyer of the Father of Maës, M e Laurent Boguet, Nordahl Lelandais is “a wolf man” who “perfectly apprehends the limits of good and evil and [who] made the choice of Organize to the dark side “.
Versions fluctuating
The accused, sitting in his box, in black shirt, listened silently the pleadings. During the debates, Nordahl Lelandais delivered fluctuating versions on the disappearance of Maëlys, varying in particular on the circumstances of the removal of the girl, which would be climbed, according to him, from his own free will in his car.
He said giving him blows to the face, in a sudden episode of violence, a few minutes after taking him away from the village room where he had encountered it little before, during a wedding party.
After the indictment of the public prosecutor, in the morning, the Word must return Thursday afternoon to the Defense, with the M e Alain Jakubowicz. The accused himself should be able to speak one last time Friday morning before the deliberations.